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Links to pages offering information on mental health issues
The Government’s www.direct.gov.uk web page, very tellingly, routes anyone looking for information about mental health issues to its Disabilities Page, which then has a link to a specific Mental Health Page. This provides some useful information, including links to a directory of mental health organisations and overviews of the roles and services involved in NHS mental health provision.
The NHS Direct page provides a link to some frequently asked questions about mental health e.g. what do sex therapists do? It also gives access to a Health Encyclopaedia, which links to a list of mental illnesses. It is also useful to use the site’s search facility on the topic of Mental Health.
The NHS Mental Health Specialist Library offers access to a variety of downloadable texts for mental health professionals. These come from such sources as the Royal College of Psychiatrists and N.I.C.E.
The organisation Mind, has a very good series of pages covering many aspects of the UK mental health system. The Information Page is a very useful resource, leading to copies of booklet on such topics as the role of the ASW under teh mental Health Act, alternative approaches to those who hear voices and mental health within different racial and cultural communities.
Other interesting links are
Mental Health Foundation
Mental Health Care is a site maintained by the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and Rethink.
http://psychcentral.com/ is a US site, which provides links to current research but also offers a glimpse of an approach to mental health that is highly dependent upon medication. The maverick Dr Peter Breggin’s website offers an interesting alternative picture to that of Psychcentral.
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